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and shortly aardvark will have refurb'd 'em
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That was my concern, if hammers do shatter would the anvil be a danger to the user. Thanks for sorting that one out.
OK, so a vice, and a question.
I really like the Record "Engineers" vices, the fixed and sliding parts have a lovely shape to them and give you more space under the jaws. Here's my current one, recently refurbed :
Forgive the very non-Record green, you can kind of see it's going into a barn workshop and I wanted a softer colour. hence this one. I think it shows off the bare metal parts nicely though.
So the next one in line is this puppy, a 36, in quite a state but it will be fun trying to sort it out : steel one, this time.
In particular, the pads which the moving jaws slide on are quite worn, which means that the moving jaw sits slightly lower and the jaws don't align when they come together :
I would really like to fix this. I got lucky on the first vice, above, because although it's pretty old it had only been lightly used with hardly any wear, but this one has obviously done its share of hard work, possibly without being properly oiled/greased.
I had thought, it should be possible to clean the pads up and deposit some weld metal on them and then mill them back to the original height, using the jaw cutout as a level datum. Has anyone done anything like this ? It would be a satisfying thing to fix, might seem like overkill but also a good learning exercise. Or flattening them and putting some shims in, but that seems like cheating and I'm not sure how you'd hold the shims in place given these pads take a lot of pressure when the jaws clamp up.
Thoughts appreciated ! Thanks.
I really like the Record "Engineers" vices, the fixed and sliding parts have a lovely shape to them and give you more space under the jaws. Here's my current one, recently refurbed :
Forgive the very non-Record green, you can kind of see it's going into a barn workshop and I wanted a softer colour. hence this one. I think it shows off the bare metal parts nicely though.
So the next one in line is this puppy, a 36, in quite a state but it will be fun trying to sort it out : steel one, this time.
In particular, the pads which the moving jaws slide on are quite worn, which means that the moving jaw sits slightly lower and the jaws don't align when they come together :
I would really like to fix this. I got lucky on the first vice, above, because although it's pretty old it had only been lightly used with hardly any wear, but this one has obviously done its share of hard work, possibly without being properly oiled/greased.
I had thought, it should be possible to clean the pads up and deposit some weld metal on them and then mill them back to the original height, using the jaw cutout as a level datum. Has anyone done anything like this ? It would be a satisfying thing to fix, might seem like overkill but also a good learning exercise. Or flattening them and putting some shims in, but that seems like cheating and I'm not sure how you'd hold the shims in place given these pads take a lot of pressure when the jaws clamp up.
Thoughts appreciated ! Thanks.
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Nice ! The green is more appealing to me than blue. Good job, well done.
What paint were you using ?
Thanks ! I really like Paragon Paints, use them for all the machinery I do. The vice is RAL 6013 Reed Green, darkened with a tiny bit of black - they have a range of finishes from Gloss (very very shiny) to Matt, this is Silk which is in the middle.Nice ! The green is more appealing to me than blue. Good job, well done.
What paint were you using ?
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Bottom been cut off?
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You can bronze weld back up
I obtained a rusty but not badly worn 35P which I did clean up & paint - but it was always going to be used, so it's not as shiny now.
It's a nice vice, and I've got mine mounted on a big home-made tripod, with a drop-down platform like a Pipe Vice Stand, plus castors on the front face of the front legs (so I can pull the vice towards me, which let's the wheels lift the front legs just clear, & I can wheels the vice out easily to use it.
The strength but lower weight helps make it easier to drag about (it's still meaty but not anything like as weighty as a Cast Iron Vice.
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Just picked this up, £50 on gumtree. Jaws in vgc.
Please tell me that's a small mug......
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Most definitely full sized!
